Synodic month length 29.46 days

Length of current 337 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 338 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 32 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 25 April 2027 Sunday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠278.5°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠278.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠308.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before apogee

11 days after point of perigee on 14 April 2027 at 00:41 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 April 2027 at 21:21 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 402 953 km

Moon before ascending node

9 days after its descending node on 15 April 2027 at 16:31 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 April 2027 at 13:24 in ♒ Aquarius.

Draconic month

Moon in southern standstill

At 01:45 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-27.312°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠27.225° in its northern standstill point on 9 May 2027 at 01:45 in ♊ Gemini.